guano
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Their collective body heat raises the cave’s temperature to a sweltering 106°F, and the piles of guano beneath them are deep enough to bury the Statue of Liberty to her waist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
"Together, the chemical and material evidence we studied confirms earlier scholarship showing that guano was deliberately collected and used as a fertilizer," Dr. Bongers said.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
Their guano, or dung, can also be used as fertilizer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2024
Researchers have discovered a new avenue by which viruses may spread from bats to other mammals: in bat guano eaten by chimpanzees and other animals.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024
Immediately he raised taxes on the Chilean-owned guano mines, which the previous Bolivian government had promised not to do.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
It has been estimated that Texas guanos alone consume 6,600 tons of insects each year.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such guanos form a soft phosphatic rock, and are extremely rich in phosphates.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
The only way in which adulteration can with certainty be detected, and the value of different guanos be determined, is by analysis, and the importance of this can easily be illustrated.
From Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson
As examples of these "crust" guanos may be mentioned Sombrero, Curaçao, Aruba, Mexico, and Navassa phosphates.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
Of these phosphatic guanos the following are the chief—those marked in italics being still unexhausted:— 1.
From Manures and the principles of manuring by Charles Morton Aikman
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